LETTER: ANC survives on corrupt payoffs
A state-funded scheme should subsidise all political parties, making it easier to prosecute the perpetrators of grand fraud
The National Prosecuting Authority is at last starting to arrest (at least B-list) corrupt cadres of the governing party. It is crystal clear that the ANC and its structures survive to a large extent on payoffs from corrupt contracts. How can this be otherwise?
In older, well-established democracies, political parties are funded by donations from business and private people, who, by and large, earn honest income in a competitive, thriving economy. At this stage of our history we don’t have such an inclusive economy as far as supporters of the governing party are concerned. If we want to move away from entrenched corruption we need a different approach...
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